It’s still fucking ridiculous that billionaire literally just bought the world’s computing supply for a decade to build something no one wants and no one even knows how to make profitable…

It’s getting to the point where it only makes sense if they don’t want us to have computers anymore.

I think they’re just using it to translate.

When someone does that, it picks up a lot of those AI “goosebumps” that make it feel off.

I mean, why do (some) Americans think that every country uses US Dollars?

Post WW2 the US economy was the only one that hadn’t been bombed to absolute shit…

So the US dollar was worth more than any other currency. Exchange rates fluctuated constantly, but US was always worth it. So US travellers could “haggle” in US currency, and even if it wasn’t enough at the moment, it might be too much tomorrow.

The assumption in areas with US travelers, was shop owners all kept a stash of US currency to exchange when it was highest.

So you got some elderly travelers who think the world is still like when they were teenagers, and some younger travellers going off decades old information.

For the host country, it’s a steady stream. But very few Americans cross either ocean, which is why it’s often people on their very first trip who have no idea what’s happening. They learn as soon as someone actually explains it, but everyone is so tired of the steady stream they don’t keep explaining.

It’s the exact same thing with Chinese tourists going to America or Western Europe.

The few who do it regularly, quickly learn to blend in, it’s just a constant stream of people who just showed up and have no idea what the actual cultural norms are due to language barrier

Because “top 20” are live service games that have been going on for years…

The top, however, remains deeply entrenched. The Top 5 PC games have been unchanged since 2023. In 2025, only Marvel Rivals and Wuthering Waves were among the rare new entrants to break into the Top 20.

If someone buys a hyped up single player game from on of the biggest studios of all time…

Itll most likely still be “outside the top 20” even tho it’s AAA

Why would you go in there?

Are these people you know who legitimately think you’d be a good fit?

I had assumed you knew them and they would help you. But from this comment it seems you may not actually know them.

They’re 100% not going to take you into any sort of back office and sit down to help you while on the clock regardless.

But if you actually know them and they’re actually saying you’d be good at it and should apply, then asking if they can take a look at your resume and give you some advice is a pretty normal ask for friends.

If you don’t know them, then Google what kind of resume the Post Office wants yourself.

Talk to the people who said you’d be a good fit.

They might not make hiring decisions, but they might help you change your resume to what the people in DC are looking for.

Canned food has sell/us-by dates, because everything needs one…

Acidic food can get weird tasting, but you’re better off ignoring the date and caring about structure integrity of the can.

It’s not about if it ruptured, if it was canned correctly or not. If there’s any flex whatsoever in the can, don’t risk. Even if it’s on the grocery store shelf and a year from expiration.

So you can use whatever beans you want, but don’t feel like you “have” to use the can, they’ll last.

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Preparing for worst case scenario is literally the only reason humans managed to make it thru 17 different ice ages chief…

In times of plenty people who will take any risk do well, but winter always comes and those dumb fucks get killed off.

It’s human variation.

The problem is we’re letting people incapable of evaluating risk drive a globally connected society.

Next time shit gets bad, there’s a real chance instead of a kingdom dissolving, virtually every living human dies, despite how personally risk averse they are.

The problem is ultra capitalists being in charge of everything, not just that they exist on a fringe

Yep.

If capitalism is calling the shots, then no one plans more than a fiscal quarter ahead of time.

You can’t compete against someone that just ignores all risks, because if nothing goes wrong they put you out of business.

And by the time something goes wrong, they have enough wealth and connections to get bailed out by governments.

Because of that, every society that places capitalism above all else, will eventually implode. One day there just won’t be anything to bail them out with.

It make sense for the oligarchs to keep making bets they can’t lose, but it means everyone else is forced to take bets we cant win.

At the same time, people drastically overestimate how big of a deal it would be…

Someone could always just stop buying games on there.

And if it did “go away” and people lost their games, they think how much they’ve spent on games over decades, and not how much it would cost to replace what they still play.

Out of all the real life horrible shit going on, very few people have the longevity of Valve as a priority.

It’s not 100% safe but at this point it’s more likely to be here in 20 years than the country it’s based in.

But besides all that, I don’t think you know what the word “monopoly” means if you think steam is one.

OP keeps spamming posts implying it was faked but not actually saying they think it’s fake…

Then deleting the post after people say it clearly wasn’t fake.

Look at OPs profile and you’ll quickly see all the massive issues with their great plan of “4chan with absolutely zero moderation”.

OP’s profile:

Working on Plebbit

For those who don’t know, that was a shitty hard right wing social media that kept talking vaguely about how it was like crypto and torrenting.

For years now people have been spamming it to the threadiverse and trying to trick people into joining.

If you go to this website:

https://bitsocial.net/

It lists 5chan as inspiration…

And people are upvoting and promoting this entirely unmoderated chan board because two seconds of research is too difficult…

Like, c’mon people, critical thinking is important now more than ever

Quick edit:

And to be clear this is the exact same project OP always spams, they just keep changing the name of it. It used to be accessible over the web tho, which allowed everyone to see the fucking horrendously racist, bigoted, and outright illegal shit they want people to be able to post.

Meh.

It’s a twice a decade racing game…

There doesn’t need to be huge changes, people like the game for what it is, it just needs occasional updates.

If this game out a year after Forza 5, then criticism for lack of changes is valid.

Just .ml things…

You asked what it was…

Then listed the 10 points…

You asked a question and answered it yourself?

I don’t know about you, but what would be best for us is if people stopped making multiple accounts a day to post the same posts

It’s just fucking weird there’s a constant stream of new accounts that claim to be underage girls and how they need money and don’t know what to do with it.

Even if it wasn’t obvious it was the same person making them all.

Just stick with one account and everyone not dumb enough to fall for it can block you, and you and gullible idiots can do your roleplay.

Rail was owned by the wealthiest and they made their money shipping freight.

Lobbyists got the US government to “sell” them the actual railways, but they had to maintain it.

So if/when there’s a conflict on the rail, freight gets to go first. They’re giant heavy trains moving insanely slowly, so even tho passenger could get by faster, they sit for hours waiting.

Back to private companies maintaining the rails, they did cost/benefit analysis and decided since they pay insurance anyways, it’s not smart to fix anything till insurance rates go up.

The problem is when a wreck happens there’s public outcry, so the government uses taxpayer funds to fix it quickly.

They wait till an accident happens, insurances pays for just the cargo, and that’s insured by the supper so the train insurance never goes up. Taxpayers pay to clean up the wreck and put in new tracks.

With the current system, the wrecks will keep happening more and more frequently because stuff only gets fixed after it fails, and only that one spot.

Weird…

But make a post to the support community mentioning it’s glitched and asking for it.

They’ll most likely fix it and give it to you because whoever the current mod is didn’t even notice.

there are 3-4 Animal Crossing communities, but none are active. One is posted to by a bot. There is basically no Animal Crossing community on Lemmy, even though spaces exist. Same for my favourite band, favourite singer, favourite film — all of which had active communities on Reddit.

Admins need to do routine pruning…

A shit ton of people jumped over from reddit and instantly created a bunch of communities just so they’d be “top mod” but there was either no demand or no supply. So accounts that mod 20-30 communities went inactive years ago at this point.

I picked up a /fantheories community no one had ever really posted to, just because I didn’t want to post somewhere that didn’t have an active mod.

But I guess any type of community on reddit that isn’t on lemmy is gonna get created anyways.

But if you see dead communities about something you’re interested in, admins are usually pretty thankful if someone offers to take it.